The government launched the individual purchasing power guarantee (Gipa) several years ago to boost the purchasing power of public sector agents. This bonus, renewed each year by decree, will be eliminated this year. According to a report from the General Directorate of Administration and Civil Service (DGAFP), this reduction will affect 188,000 public employees.
Thus, these thousands of civil servants, who received this bonus in 2023, will have to cope without it in 2024. Remember that this annual bonus (Gipa) from which civil servants and contract workers benefit, whatever their category (A, B or C), was put in place in 2008. Its objective was to guarantee public employees the maintenance of their level of remuneration when their index salary evolved less quickly than inflation over a period of four years.
This year, the government, to achieve savings of 1.2 billion euros in the public sector, announced, through the Minister of the Civil Service, Guillaume Kasbarian, the non-payment of this bonus in 2024 He explains this decision by the difficult budgetary context.
The number of Gipa beneficiaries tripled in 2023
188,000 “civilian agents of ministries and higher education establishments” benefited from the payment of this bonus in 2023, according to the DGAFP report on the state of the civil service published on November 15. This is a “level never reached since the introduction of the measure in 2008”, say the editors of the said report, who underline that the Fipa bonus amounted to an average annual amount of 663 euros in 2023.
It must be said that the number of beneficiaries in 2023 was significantly increasing compared to previous years.
This bonus “enabled around 61,000 agents from the three sides of the public service to receive an average compensation estimated at around 400 euros”, in 2022, underlines the report. This figure therefore tripled in one year, while the DGAFP was only interested in a smaller group of public agents.
“These are only the beneficiaries “civil agents of ministries and higher education establishments”, which represents 1.7 million public agents out of the 2.5 million agents” of the state civil service , explains to AFP a source from the ministerial statistical service of the public service. “In fact, there were more beneficiaries (of this bonus, Editor’s note) throughout the public service”, but “in the information systems that we use in our statistical work, we do not have this information outside this restricted field,” explains the same source.
